Spirit Offerings
We strive to think outside of the box while respecting the art of craft. We approach with our senses to guide our process, and focus on maturation and blending. Our products stand apart from the norm.
Sourcing the best spirits while maintaining quality and ingenuity along the way is our goal. We revel in pleasing your senses, and hope to surprise you with wonder and engagement. Taste it for yourself, and for a new experience.
The Proof is in the Proofing.
When the time comes to add water to the high proof spirits, we take our time. Using a slow and gentle proofing process with quality water, we achieve a delicacy to the spirit, with a smooth and round mouthfeel.
So, we add water, small additions at a time, as our spirits age, to integrate with the spirit harmoniously. We proof by hand. Once it's time to bottle, we preserve the flavor nuances within the spirits' character by filtering lightly and bottling in house by hand.
We've got Hydrometer Shirts for fellow Spirits Geeks out there!
Bottled & Labeled by Hand
Then comes the labels, designed in-house by Therese Agnew, each label is fastened by hand and numbered with proof and batch. All the attention to detail put in to the expressions below. Check out what we are releasing now...
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Mosswood Whiskey
Apple Brandy Barrel
Enjoy the Apple Brandy Barrel aged Whiskey and its long standing history with Mosswood. The first ever release, with continued great results. A well-balanced quality of fruits and vanillas, lending itself well to sipping and mixing alike.
A Local Collaboration with Arkansas Black Applejack
Serving Suggestions
Try this neat, on ice, with soda water, hot toddies galore, mint juleps, whiskey sours, or use in place of bourbon for your favorite cocktail recipes.
Sour Ale Barrel
The Sour Ale Barrel aged Whiskey is aged additionally in barrels freshly emptied of Drake's beer called Brette Davis Eyes. This whiskey originated from our research and development department's small barrel experiments.
A Local Collaboration with Drake's Brewing Co.
This sounded like a delicious complement to the profile of our whiskey, so we test-batched an Imperial Stout aged Whiskey. What came of it was interesting, but not quite balanced enough for us—the whiskey was profoundly coconut flavored!
We took what we learned from that experiment, and used a beer on a different taste profile spectrum as our ACE'd technique. This was a floral hopped red ale, and after time in the small barrel, we revisited it to transfer whiskey into the beer barrel. Upon opening the barrel, the ale had naturally soured, similar to the sour beers we're seeing on the market today.
Serving Suggestions
Try this neat, on ice, with soda water, hot toddies galore, mint juleps, whiskey sours, or use in place of bourbon for your favorite cocktail recipes.
Espresso Barrel
Enjoy the Espresso Barrel aged Whiskey and its long standing history with Mosswood. This was our second ever release and are proud of its continued results. The finish is subtle yet bold, with hints of coffee balanced against a sweet undertone.
A Local Collaboration with Bicycle Coffee Co.
Serving Suggestions
Try this neat, on ice, with soda water, old fashioned (w/ chocolate bitters), black manhattan, old pal, dessert cocktails, or any classic whiskey cocktail for a twist. More recipes here.
Rotating Barrel
This Rotating Barrel is a limited release whiskey aged in a single barrel, hand stamping every bottle for each release. Typically sharing one expression per year, we take full creative license on our gray label. Our current release is a new iteration of an Umeshu Barrel Aged Whiskey.
2019 Winter Special Release
Former Rotating Barrels
Serving Suggestions
Try this neat, on ice, with soda water, but neat is almighty here.
Mosswood Rum
Day Rum
Our take on light rum, Day Rum is a four times distilled molasses based rum. We source the rum from Puerto Rico, and blend it with sourced Floridian Rum. These two rum varietals are brought to proof in red wine barrels, bourbon barrels, and neutral barrels, each used as a blending component for the final touches before bottling.
Despite it being our "unaged" light rum, you will see a subtle golden hue to the spirit from our barrel proofing techniques.
UME
Plum flavored Rum
Ume Rum! The ume plum is a special fruit commonly used in Japanese cuisine for its tart, dry qualities. Using our Day Rum, we macerate plums we source from a third generation Japanese farmer in the central coast of California. Once the rum soaks up enough plum, we pull the rum and transfer it to an ex bourbon barrel. At this point, the rum is extremely tart, and will need some sweetening through the barrel, and sweetener added.
While the Ume Rum settles in the barrel, we pour sugar over the plums to create a syrup for the rum. The sugar eventually liquifies, and we slowly add the plum sweetener to the rum.
Our rum is tart! To some it is reminiscent of Li Hing Mui and to others Lavashak. Writing tasting notes on a flavored spirit seems a bit redundant. We think it tastes a lot like ume: tart, savory fruit meat, maybe even an almond note from the pit. It is bright and fun to play with in cocktails. Try it with citrus, bubbles, a combination of the two, or just pour it over ice!
Night Rum
Our take on dark rum, Night Rum is a column distilled molasses based rum aged three years in ex bourbon barrels. We source the rum from Jamaica, and bring it in house to barrel finish. We launched Night Rum with a Red Wine Barrel finish.
The red wine barrel aged a Vin Santo style dessert wine–the barrel freshly emptied and sourced from Piedrasassi Winery. Night Rum Scotch Barrel was also launched, the finish being in a barrel formerly aging peated scotch. Our first batches are sold out and we are working on new production.
We take pride in the many partners who work directly with our production team to develop something special to call their own. We work with retailers, bars, and restaurants to tailor private barrels and blends under the guise of our techniques and palate sensibilities.
Want to start a project? Contact us.
Custom Blended Day Rum
Working directly with our colleagues to create custom blends for them is such a rewarding exchange.
Current and past blends:
Sobre Mesa
SEQUOIA GOLD
LAST RITES
Maison Corbeaux Bottling
In cojunction with this specialty wine and spirits shop in San Francisco, we aged Five Year Old bourbons in two different Napa Valley Red Wine Casks.
The result was wonderful. We bottled at cask strength, each barrel, and also bottled a 50/50 blend of the barrels. Look out for these special limited bottles!
Cask Store Bottling
This private barrel was a collaboration with Piedrasassi Winery down in Lompoc, CA.
We barrel aged a 5 year bourbon in freshly emptied Syrah barrels from Piedrasassi, and bottled this beauty at cask strength.
Taster's Club Bottling
This private barrel was a collaboration with Leaf & Vine in Napa, CA, and St. Helena Winery in St. Helena, CA.
We barrel aged a light whiskey and bourbon blend in a zinfindel barrel from Leaf & Vine, and a cabernet barrel from St. Helena Winery. We carefully blended the two, and proofed down the spirit before bottling.
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